ESSIE New Faculty Hires

In Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment

The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) is excited to welcome seven new faculty members.

Katherine Deliz Quiñones, Ph.D.

Katherine Deliz Quiñones

Lecturer
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences

Research Areas: Microbiome Engineering, Remediation, Ecotoxicology, Ecosystem and Social Resilience

B.S., Biology, 2000, University of Puerto Rico
M.S., Biology/Limnology, 2004, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering Sciences, 2013, University of Florida

Christopher Ferraro

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

Research Areas: Infrastructural Materials, Cement and Concrete Testing and Mass Concrete

B.S., Civil Engineering, with honors, 1998, University of Florida
M.S., 2003, University of Florida
Ph.D., 2009, University of Florida

Christopher Ferraro, Ph.D.

Rui Guo, Ph.D.

Rui Guo

Lecturer
Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

Research Areas: Multimodal Traffic Safety, Sustainable Transportation and Air Transportation

B.S., 2008, Southeast University
Ph.D., 2015, University of South Florida

Antarpreet Jutla

Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences

Research Areas: Water and Health, Flood Forecasting, Satellite Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology, Climate Change

B. Tech. 2001. Agricultural Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University, India.
M.Tech. 2003. Water Resources, Soil and Water Engineering Punjab Agricultural University, India.
M.Sc. 2006. Water Resources, Civil and Geological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Ph.D. 2011. Water Resources,Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, USA.

Antarpreet Jutla, Ph.D.

Brian Phillips, Ph.D.

Brian Phillips

Associate Professor
Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

Research Areas: Structural Dynamics, Structural Control, Wind Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Cyber-Physical Systems

B.S., University of Pittsburgh
M.S., University of Illinois
Ph.D., University of Illinois

Katherine Todd-Brown

Assistant Professor
Department of Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

Research Areas: Soil Carbon Dynamics, Earth System Models, Pore-to-Global Scaling, ModelData Integration, Simulation Analysis

B.S., Mathematics, 2004, Harvey Mudd College
Ph.D., Earth System Science, 2013, University of California Irvine

Katherine Todd-Brown, Ph.D.

Xilei Zhao, Ph.D.

Xilei Zhao

Assistant Professor
Department of Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

Research Areas: Dynamic Traffic Network Modeling, Civil Infrastructure Systems, Future Mobility Systems Planning

B.E., Civil Engineering, 2013, Southeast University
MSE, Applied Maths and Statistics, 2017, Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 2017, Johns Hopkins University

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